a sculpture or model of a person (某人的)雕像,模拟像 a tomb effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine. 阿基坦的埃莱诺的墓碑雕像。 ■a roughly made model of a particular person that is made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger 某人的模拟像(用来毁掉以示抗议或憎恨) the minister was burned in effigy. 部长的模拟像被烧毁。
常用词组 语源
mid 16th cent.: from Latin effigies, from effingere 'to fashion (artistically'), from ex- 'out' + fingere 'to shape'